AWARDS & NOMINATIONS

The Woman in White                Emmy Nomination

Miss Morisons Ghosts               Cannes Film Festival Nomination

Kate, the Good Neighbour       Gold Medal Award Commonwealth Film Festival 1980

The Reason of Things               Emmy Nomination

Faraday’s Dream                     Winner top four awards International Science Film Festival

…….and reviews from the national press

The House on the Hill  - by Peter Ransley

….....the whole play concentrated to a pinpoint of light on Elisabeth Bergner's small scarface drowned in darkness. The very centre of The Centre Play.......a masterly and completely controlled performance, aided and abetted by John Bruce's imaginative direction........

The Dandelion Clock  - by Wilson John Haire

….the strength of this production lay in the convincing portrayals it coaxed from the youngsters.......

Up and Under  - by Gwyn Thomas

…....but there, half hidden in the shadows of Sunday evening, was a little gem called Up and Under

Instant Enlightenment inc.VAT  -  by Andrew Carr

…….wonderful to observe director John Bruce’s skilful steering of the drama through so much horror, wonder, mirth and misery to total conviction and belief….

Kate the Good Neighbour  - by Peter Ransley

…….and John Bruce’s direction was as adventurous and as sometimes breathtaking. Kate seemed to be that rare thing, a television masterpiece……but this was one of those rare occasions when writer, producer, director, and actors found themselves for 86 minutes on precisely the same wavelength with a play that had a story, a theme, and characters who thought and behaved as real people, so that their actions were never predictable. …...

Iris in the traffic, Ruby in the rain  - by Stewart Parker

…...John Bruce's cleverly exploiting unease, brings out the awkward fumbling sincerity of the characters and the subtle menace of their world,

and where appropriate, quietly comic performances.....

The Woman in White  - by Wilkie Collins

……..what a splendid treat to have a 4-star, copper-bottomed, vintage BBC classic serial back in our midst – you would have to be very blasé to tire of looking at director John Bruce’s work…nothing could make me stop watching…this is now compulsive viewing – unmissable.......

…puts me in mind of a splendid 5-course banquet, packed with exotic, peculiar, the pure, the fiery, and all served up with a good dollop of the plain and simple. It is no less than a treat…directed by John Bruce, this is a production to be savoured…

…quite simply, the best thing on television at the moment, the best for a long time, a classic of intelligent adaptation…

….one of the TV triumphs of the year, drawing rave reviews…fans who can’t wait for the final episode have made sure there’s barely a Penguin copy of the book to be had in the shops…

The Reason of Things -  by Freda Kelsall

…....YTV's production, directed by John Bruce, presented the script with the harmoniousness and craftsmanship it deserved. The wartime teaching scenes were wonderfully accurate and funny...... devoid of malice, beautifully directed.....

Terra Nova  - by Ted Tally

……notable for the stylisation of John Bruce’s direction…

……a superb play with the barren feel of the Antarctic created in an electronic studio....After a couple of patchy years, it puts the BBC right back at the top again in the drama department….

.Miss Morison’s Ghosts  - by Iain Curteis

………for two hours, I promise, you will be dazzled……this expensive looking production, skilfully directed by John Bruce, must be one of the best things Anglia has done…

Parnell and the Englishwoman -  by Hugh Leonard

…..It is comforting to find this sort of highly professional production around these days.....

Trevor Eve, Francesca Annis, and director John Bruce, have completed one of those period dramas you expect to hear called classic and see in the BAFTA nominations....